Last summer, the books' publisher Continum was acquired by Bloomsbury. Given how little the company seems to be interfering with the proceedings, this is good news -- Bloomsbury's deeper pockets give the series a safety net. Read the submission guidelines on the 33 1/3 blog. The bullet points, plus a complete list of the books (and therefore albums) already accounted for, is below.

We will be accepting new proposals between the dates of March 19th and April 30th, 2012. Nothing sooner, nothing later.

Interested authors should send in one proposal, about one album. Multiple submissions cannot be accepted.

All proposals must be submitted via email. The address for submissions is as follows:

33proposals@gmail.com

The subject line of your email must use this format: "Proposal for Madonna's Ray of Light". (That's an example only, of course...)

Only proposals sent to 33proposals@gmail.com will be considered - no exceptions! Any questions about the proposal process should be posted to the comments section of the 33 1/3 blog , or on the wall of the series facebook page: we will answer them there.

All proposals will receive an automated reply, acknowledging receipt. Once the window closes at the end of April, we will need around 3 months before our publishing decisions are made: everybody will be notified in person at that point.

Word count on the books signed up will be between 30,000 and 40,000. No exceptions allowed.

There will be royalties payable on all print and electronic editions of your book, as well as foreign rights deals, etc - but no advances will be paid against those royalties.

A word of caution: Last time they opened the series for submissions, 597 came in. So make 'em memorable.

Album (date of publication)

Artist

Author of book

Dusty in Memphis(2003)

Dusty Springfield

Warren Zanes

Forever Changes(2003)

Love

Andrew Hultkrans

Harvest (2003)

Neil Young

Sam Inglis

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation
Society (2003)

The Kinks

Andy Miller

Meat Is Murder(2003)

The Smiths

Joe Pernice

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn(2003)

Pink Floyd

John Cavanagh

ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits (2004)

ABBA

Elisabeth Vincentelli

Electric Ladyland(2004)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

John Perry

Unknown Pleasures(2004)

Joy Division

Chris Ott

Sign "O" the Times(2004)

Prince

Michaelangelo Matos

The Velvet Underground & Nico(2004)

The Velvet Underground

Joe Harvard

Let It Be (2004)

The Beatles

Steve Matteo

Live at the Apollo(2004)

James Brown

Douglas Wolk

Aqualung (2004)

Jethro Tull

Allan Moore

OK Computer(2004)

Radiohead

Dai Griffiths

Let It Be (2004)

The Replacements

Colin Meloy

Led Zeppelin IV(2005)

Led Zeppelin

Erik Davis

Exile on Main St.(2005)

The Rolling Stones

Bill Janovitz

Pet Sounds (2005)

The Beach Boys

Jim Fusilli

Ramones (2005)

Ramones

Nicholas Rombes

Armed Forces(2005)

Elvis Costello

Franklin Bruno

Murmur (2005)

R.E.M.

J. Niimi

Grace (2005)

Jeff Buckley

Daphne Brooks

Endtroducing.....(2005)

DJ Shadow

Eliot Wilder

Kick Out the Jams(2005)

MC5

Don McLeese

Low (2005)

David Bowie

Hugo Wilcken

Born in the U.S.A.(2005)

Bruce Springsteen

Geoffrey Himes

Music from Big Pink(2005)

The Band

John Niven

In the Aeroplane over the Sea (2005)

Neutral Milk Hotel

Kim Cooper

Paul's Boutique(2006)

Beastie Boys

Dan Le Roy

Doolittle (2006)

Pixies

Ben Sisario

There's a Riot Goin' On (2006)

Sly and the Family Stone

Miles Marshall Lewis

The Stone Roses(2006)

The Stone Roses

Alex Green

In Utero (2006)

Nirvana

Gillian G. Gaar

Highway 61 Revisited (2006)

Bob Dylan

Mark Polizzotti

Loveless (2006)

My Bloody Valentine

Mike McGonigal

The Who Sell Out(2006)

The Who

John Dougan

Bee Thousand(2006)

Guided by Voices

Marc Woodworth

Daydream Nation(2006)

Sonic Youth

Matthew Stearns

Court and Spark(2006)

Joni Mitchell

Sean Nelson

Use Your Illusion Iand II (2006)

Guns N' Roses

Eric Weisbard

69 Love Songs(2006)

The Magnetic Fields

LD Beghtol

Songs in the Key of Life (2007)

Stevie Wonder

Zeth Lundy

The Notorious Byrd Brothers (2007)

The Byrds

Ric Menck

Trout Mask Replica(2007)

Captain Beefheart

Kevin Courrier

Double Nickels on the Dime (2007)

Minutemen

Michael T. Fournier

Aja (2007)

Steely Dan

Don Breithaupt

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths
of Rhythm(2007)

A Tribe Called Quest

Shawn Taylor

Rid of Me (2007)

PJ Harvey

Kate Schatz

Achtung Baby(2007)

U2

Stephen Catanzarite

If You're Feeling Sinister (2007)

Belle & Sebastian

Scott Plagenhoef

Pink Moon (2007)

Nick Drake

Amanda Petrusich

Let's Talk About Love (2007)

Celine Dion

Carl Wilson

Swordfishtrombones(2007)

Tom Waits

David Smay

20 Jazz Funk Greats (2008)

Throbbing Gristle

Drew Daniel

Horses (2008)

Patti Smith

Philip Shaw

Master of Reality(2008)

Black Sabbath

John Darnielle

Reign in Blood(2008)

Slayer

D.X. Ferris

Shoot Out the Lights (2008)

Richard andLinda Thompson

Hayden Childs

Gentlemen (2008)

The Afghan Whigs

Bob Gendron

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (2008)

The Pogues

Jeffrey T. Roesgen

The Gilded Palace of Sin (2008)

The Flying Burrito Brothers

Bob Proehl

Pink Flag (2009)

Wire

Wilson Neate

XO (2009)

Elliott Smith

Mathew Lemay

Illmatic (2009)

Nas

Matthew Gasteier

Radio City (2009)

Big Star

Bruce Eaton

One Step Beyond...(2009)

Madness

Terry Edwards

Another Green World (2009)

Brian Eno

Geeta Dayal

Zaireeka (2009)

The Flaming Lips

Mark Richardson

Facing Future(2009)

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Dan Kois

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (2010)

Public Enemy

Christopher R. Weingarten

Wowee Zowee(2010)

Pavement

Bryan Charles

Highway to Hell(2010)

AC/DC

Joe Bonomo

Song Cycle (2010)

Van Dyke Parks

Richard Henderson

Spiderland (2010)

Slint

Scott Tennent

Kid A (2010)

Radiohead

Marvin Lin

Tusk (2011)

Fleetwood Mac

Rob Trucks

Pretty Hate Machine (2011)

Nine Inch Nails

Daphne Carr

Chocolate and Cheese (2011)

Ween

Hank Shteamer

American Recordings (2011)

Johnny Cash

Tony Tost

Some Girls (2011)

The Rolling Stones

Cyrus Patell

You're Living All Over Me (2011)

Dinosaur Jr.

Nick Attfield

Marquee Moon(2011)

Television

Bryan Waterman

Amazing Grace(2011)

Aretha Franklin

Aaron Cohen

Dummy (2011)

Portishead

RJ Wheaton

Forthcoming Titles
Fear of Music, by Jonathan Lethem, on the album by Talking Heads (1979)
Exile in Guyville, by Gina Arnold, on the album by Liz Phair (1992)
Maggot Brain, by Matt Rogers, on the album by Funkadelic (1971)
London Calling, by Tommy Tompkins, on the album by The Clash (1979)
Lucinda Williams, by Anders Smith Lindall, on the album by Lucinda Williams (1988)
The Dreaming, by Ann Powers, on the album by Kate Bush (1982)